According to police information, a man was killed on Thursday in the El Recreo neighborhood of that coastal city, when individuals arrived in a car and shot the victim.
The incident occurs as President Daniel Noboa intervenes in that city as part of his strategy against organized crime.
According to the president, he will send from Durán, where criminal gangs such as the Chone Killers and the Latin Kings divide neighborhoods, imposing codes of conduct and criminal governance, according to the digital portal Primicias.
The president arrived in the area on Wednesday accompanied by military tanks, as part of an intervention seeking to alleviate insecurity there.
“We will take the Duraninos into our hands and return them to their true and sole owners, the Duranino families,” Noboa said upon arriving in the city.
On Tuesday, about 150 police officers carried out operations in the municipality’s high-crime neighborhoods, checking cars and the identities of those riding light vehicles, motorcycles and buses.
The mayor of Durán, Luis Chonillo, pointed out that this area “is only the tip of the iceberg, and he hopes that these decisions will be accompanied not only by measures to show the media and networks, but also by clear public policies that see the problem at its roots and seek to restore the social fabric.”
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion (MIES) explained that about nine thousand families today live in extreme poverty in Duran.
The head of the government of that state, Zaida Rovira, explained that during this week some social teams visited sectors of that coastal city, which is one of the most violent areas in the Andean country, to conduct a population census and reveal the cases of poverty and how people live there, where about 300 thousand people live.
Rovira warned El Universo that the city had alarming figures on insecurity and was ranked as the most dangerous city in the world due to its figure of 145 violent deaths per 100,000 inhabitants.
Last week, Ecuador marked six months since the declaration of internal armed conflict, a measure Noboa took to confront organized crime.
However, legal experts warn that militarization will be of little use if social measures are not adopted to reduce inequality.
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